Valerie Insinna
Articles By Valerie
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Air ForceWelsh: F-35 To Conduct Different CAS Missions Than A-10
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Monday that any plan to compare the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s ability to do close air support (CAS) to that of […]
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Navy/USMCHII Lays Keel for Second Ford-class Aircraft Carrier
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding [HII] on Aug. 22 laid the keel for the Navy’s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79). “The keel-laying for […]
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UncategorizedDefense Watch
KC-46A Delay. Boeing’s KC-46A aerial refueling tanker will make its first flight a month later than projected, company spokeswoman Caroline Hutcheson says. During tests, the aircraft was loaded with a fuel […]
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Navy/USMCF-35, LHA-6 Coming Soon to the Asia Pacific
The United States is beefing up its posture in the Asia-Pacific region and will be moving some of its newest capabilities—such as the F-35, destroyers and a freshly-built amphibious ship—to […]
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Air ForceF-35 to Face Off Against A-10 During IOT&E
The Pentagon’s independent testing office wants to pit the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and the A-10 Warthog against each other for comparative tests that will gauge the new jet’s ability […]
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CyberJeb Bush: Offensive Cyber is Part of the Game
The United States should be conducting offensive cyber attacks on its adversaries similar to the one China allegedly perpetuated on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Republican presidential candidate Jeb […]
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Navy/USMC
iRobot Awarded $4 Million Contract for FirstLook Bots
iRobot [IRBT] picked up a $4 million order from the Navy for an undisclosed number of 110 FirstLook robots, the company said on Wednesday. The 110 FirstLook is a rugged […]
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InternationalBAE Machine Gun Picked for Canadian Arctic Patrol Ships
The Royal Canadian navy will be getting as many as six modified 25mm Mk 38 machine guns from BAE Systems for its Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS), the company said […]
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Navy/USMCRaytheon Continues Push to Extend Tomahawk Production Line
A year ago, Raytheon [RTN] was facing the end of the Tomahawk cruise missile production line in 2016. The Navy’s fiscal year 2016 budget request stretched out production one more […]
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BudgetFormer Fed Chair Warns Against Using Defense Budget to Lower Deficit
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday gave a word of advice to lawmakers who might try to reduce the U.S. deficit through deep cuts to the defense budget: […]